Reading Co. v. Seip

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 330
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 67

Syllabus

<p>Railroads — Right of way — Adverse possession — Land purchased.</p> <p>No title can. be acquired by adverse possession, however long continued, to land purchased by a railroad company and used by the company for the construction of switches adjacent to and diverging from its main track.</p> <p>A railroad is a public highway, and the land which it covers whether acquired by the exercise of eminent domain or by purchase, is not the subject of adverse possession, and is immune from the statute.</p> <p>Appeals — Assignments of error — Points.</p> <p>A single assignment of error embracing several points violates Rule XIV.</p> <p>An assignment of error to an instruction which does not quote the instruction totidem verbis violates Rule XV.</p>